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| Dec 2, 2022 at 15:18 | comment | added | VLAZ | The notifications did sync. I usually have many tabs open on SE. I've not had to go through and clear notifications on each of them. Although if the websocket connection dies, then you might experience problems. Also this acted slightly odd when you had, say, three notifications and opened them all in tabs immediately one after another. The first tab would show two notifications, the second one notification, the last no notifications. Opening the inbox on either would not show any unread items. BTW, this behaviour is still present with the new inbox. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 15:11 | comment | added | Marijn | I'm not sure that was a feature in the old inbox, as far as I remember sometimes I would open a couple of tabs (for example some linked questions or a few HNQ) while there was a notification, the number would show in all of them, and when I read the notification in one of the tabs it did not disappear in the others. I have not tested it fully but I think the change is that now the other tabs would sync as long as you don't open the inbox on that tab. If it worked the other way around (new notifications added on an already opened page) I don't remember but I think they did not refresh either. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 14:52 | comment | added | VLAZ | Which is a feature of the old inbox. You don't think it's a stretch to list it as a new feature? | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 14:47 | comment | added | Marijn | I guess until you open the inbox there is real-time refreshing, in the sense that you open a page, there are no new messages (so you don't click the inbox), you read for a few minutes, then a message is sent to you, and the top bar auto-refreshes to show the new message indicator. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 14:43 | comment | added | VLAZ | @Marijn with that reading there is basically no real-time refreshing. It only "refreshes in real-time" (and that's a stretch) until you open the notifications. TBH, I'm kind of baffled by the boast it's real-time given than it's just loading the items when you open. Which is how the old notifications worked, as well. The new ones just stop loading new data on the second open. Which used to be a bug the old notifications had. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 14:39 | comment | added | Marijn | The quote in your answer does say If a new notification arrived while the inbox was opened, which can indeed be read as the behavior you describe, i.e., opened means opened at some moment while on the page, and either closed again or still open. However, more sensible behavior would indeed be to check if the inbox is currently open and then show the refresh button, otherwise auto-refresh always. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 13:05 | history | answered | VLAZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |